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#2061 – Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1)

ENGLISH

In the last four to five months, I have been following Star Trek’s most recent series, Star Trek: Discovery. And just this weekend (Well, Monday for the Dutch Netflixer like me), the first season was concluded.

If I have to describe the first season of this new series, I will go with “a series full of plot twists“, hahaha 😆 . << Spoiler Alert >> You know, Ash Tyler was actually Voq, Gabriel Lorca was actually from the Mirror universe, Mirror Philippa Georgiou was the cruel and evil emperor of the Terran Empire, and the appointment of Mirror Philippa Georgiou as the captain of USS Discovery after being brought to the Prime (our) universe by Michael Burnham. <<Spoiler Done >> This made this series exciting, to me, as it led me to not know what to expect. Even though at some point I felt like it went overdose with the plot-twisting, lol 😆 .

On the other hand, and I have mentioned this before, this series focused a lot on the action part (Mainly the Federation vs Klingon war and getting trapped in the Mirror Universe and the return attempt) and not at all on the social/interpersonal/intrapersonal conflict aspect like the other Star Trek series. So this definitely gave a really different vibe of a Star Trek series to me.

Each episode was also made not independent of each other; and that one would need to follow the series from the beginning to know what was going on. When you watch one of Star Trek: Voyager‘s episodes, for instance, most of the time you would not need to watch the previous episodes to understand what was going on.

<< Spoiler Alert, Again >>

Ironically, though, IMO the season finale was the “most Star Trek” episode. An away mission (finally!) down to an establishment on an alien planet (Klingon’s Qo’Nos) and ending the war with a (to some degree) diplomacy. On one hand this could feel anticlimatic because most of the preceding episodes were full of fights and wars, that one (or I, at least) would expect to see some “actions” in the finale. But on the other hand this made a lot of sense. The story arc in those preceding episodes was “controlled” by a Terran (Mirror Gabriel Lorca and Mirror Philippa Georgiou), who loved and lived on fights and wars. In this episode, the “real” Starfleet and Federation finally took charge, via the lead of Michael Burnham.

So in the end, I was overall satisfied with the finale! Though, one thing disappointed me a little bit, where they only used one line mentioning that the spore technology was off the table (Starfleet was committed to finding non-human interface, according to Stamets (which, obviously, wasn’t successful in the end)). But to top it off, this season ended with the most coolest cliff-hanger ever, where the USS Discovery crew encountered a distress call from … the USS Enterprise!!

At the end of the day, the biggest and most important question is: “Did I enjoy this new series?” And the answer to this was “Yes!“. Haha 😆 So despite the “shift” in the characteristics of Star Trek series (despite the very Star Trek finale), overall I still felt like the writers (and everyone involved) did a great job in creating an enjoyable and exciting series, which made me look forward to it everytime I went back from work on Monday!

And so certainly I am excited that a second season has been ordered, and I am looking forward to it! Even though I still have a little bit of hope that the overall tone of second season will be a little bit “more Star Trek”. But nonetheless, we will see!!